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(140/366) En Route
May 19. 2012 – Heathrow Airport for a connection to Nice. A relatively uneventful flight here, Kirk upgraded us to some really great seats with buckets of legroom. It was as comfortable as one could probably get on a nine and a half hour flight without being in First Class. Next stop, Nice! When we landed in Nice, we waited…
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(139/366) YVR
May 18, 2012 – YVR has some pretty cool artwork in the International departures area. We are off for a week in the South of France, at the airport obscenely early, for me anyway. We came out extra early for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it is a Friday before a long weekend so the traffic might have been been…
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(138/366) Countdown…
May 17, 2012 – Getting ready for a holiday….and boy, do we need it. Looking forward to a visit to France, absolutely no plans, but apparently the Cannes Film Festival is on while we are there. Just soooo looking forward to seeing the Mediterranean again. Looking forward to a relaxing, entertaining time filled with wine, good food, croissants, and cappuccinos.…
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(137/366) Lewisia
May 16, 2012 – I had to go to a meeting in Nanaimo today, and again tomorrow, and was undecided right up until last night as to whether or not I’d stay overnight or commute back and forth. In the end I opted to come home tonight, and get back on the first ferry again tomorrow morning. It never seems…
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(136/366) I Got Nuthin’
May 15, 2012 – Long day, tired, have to get up early tomorrow to make the first ferry to the Island, no idea what to shoot, and I’m tired of being without my guy, and I’m sure he’s super tired of the roller coaster he’s had the past few weeks. o this is all I’ve got today. So this is…
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(135/366) Out of Season
May 14, 2012 – Until recent years you never would have convinced me to eat corn before late July at the earliest. The best corn was at the farms in August. And the very best corn (after that grown on my grandparent’s farm) came from DeMille’s in Salmon Arm. But recently corn is showing up early in the grocery stores.…
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Tali Sharot: The optimism bias
Are we born to be optimistic, rather than realistic? Tali Sharot shares new research that suggests our brains are wired to look on the bright side — and how that can be both dangerous and beneficial.
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(134/366) Lego My Killer Whale!
May 13, 2012 – May 13, 2012 – Funny how you live in a place, know that things are where they are, but never really go and look at them. I was wandering back and forth in the sun down at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre and a man was about to take a photo of his wife in…
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(133/366) Well this is annoying!
May 12, 2012 – I have a couple of dozen cameras, but only two that I really use. The rest are novelty cameras, film cameras, or old ones that don’t actually work anymore but look neat on a shelf. The two that I use on a daly basis are my big Nikon D300, and a little Lumix LX3. The Nikon…
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(132/366) Spring is really here?
May 11, 2012 – I don’t want to scare it away, but the weekend is supposed to be nice…shhhh….it frightens easily…. Wow, nice weather AND on a weekend AND it’s sailpast this weekend for our yacht club. What a fabulous set of circumstances. I was invited out on a couple of boats for the weekend, scratch that, I was heavily…
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